Most people carve pumpkins on Halloween. Bruce Bradford is going to shoot one out of a cannon.

Bradford will defend his title of World’s Best Pumpkin Hurler by trying to blast a pumpkin more than 4,594 feet, or nearly nine-tenths of a mile, his record last year.

“It’s something to do,” Bradford said of the weird contest in Sussex County, Delaware.

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A Vermont man may face a sss-tiff fine because he picked up a dead rattlesnake as a souvenir.

Timothy Dupree spotted the deceased reptile on the side of the road near Rutland and stuck it in his freezer as a keepsake.

But officials say Dupree violated the state’s Endangered Species Act by even touching the rattler, despite the fact that it was dead. He now could be fined $600 and lose his hunting and fishing license.

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It wasn’t a good morning for an Illinois woman who walked into her kitchen to make breakfast – and found a 250-pound corpse slumped over the sink.

Cops say burglar Craig Petropoulos, 36, apparently tried to squeeze through the kitchen window in Elgin, when he got stuck around his chest.

Unable to breathe, he passed out over the sink and died.

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When Al Jones complained to his cable provider that the Michigan State football game had suddenly been blacked out, he wasn’t prepared for the reply – which he recorded.

“You stupid motherbleeper. You kiss my motherbleeping bleep. I cut your cable, you motherbleeping motherbleeper,” a belligerent Comcast service rep screamed at Jones, who lives in Elgin, Mich.

Red-faced Comcast officials say they’re investigating the call.

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A hearse caused chaos when it overturned on a German highway – the coffin it was carrying split open and the body fell onto the road.

A bag of coffin nails also spilled out over the pavement near Venlo. Police say the driver crashed the vehicle after falling asleep.